Rockford 500a2

I picked some amps up at a garage sale and this was one of them. The amp wont power up I know I have 12v coming into it. It was really dirty inside.
 

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Ok so looking at your diagram. I flipped the top row. Sorry about that.

Pin1=0.648
Pin2=5.138
Pin3=0.596
Pin4=2.016
Pin5=1.963
Pin6=3.762
Pin7=0.512
Pin8=8.07
Pin9=0.954
Pin10=0.958
Pin11=8.06
Pin12=8.06
Pin13=5.376
Pin14=5.378
Pin15=5.380
Pin16=0.505
 
The most important thing to remember is that, when they're free, the will lift with VERY little force. Do not force them up.

They are soldered down. You will have to heat the insulator from the back after removing the board from the sink and cleaning all heatsink compound from the insulator.

Do you have a small butane torch (not a large propane torch) or a heat gun?

Do you have any binder clips (like those used to bind large stacks of papers?
 
The amp will have parallel outputs which can make it appear that more are shorted than there are. Find the ones with the lowest resistance from leg 1-2 and cut all legs free. Does this allow the amp to power up?

The following is the basic procedure for removing the transistors but it can wait until we determine how much damage there is to the rest of the amp.
Use the binder clips on the adjacent transistors to prevent them from lifting. Heat the back of the insulator (being careful not to heat the board) until the defective transistor will slide off of the insulator.